Filmmaker Charles Officer is no stranger to films dealing with major issues of relevance to the City of Toronto, and to Canada on the whole, but his documentary Unarmed Verses, which made its world premiere at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival...

For her unique, personal, and warm-hearted documentary Maison du Bonheur (which screens in Toronto this week at Hot Docs), Canadian filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz took a brave leap of faith and decided to roll with whatever came her way. Bohdanowicz, who was named the...

Filmmaker Ali Weinstein isn’t a mermaid, but she has spent several years documenting what it takes to be one. For Mermaids, her “deep dive” into a subculture of people who feel and affinity for and identify with these fish-tailed mythological sea creatures, Weinstein...

Attorney and Brockton, Massachusetts native Ken Feinberg has one of the most unique and unenviable professions in the world, one chronicled in German filmmaker Karin Jurschick’s documentary Playing God, making its world premiere at Hot Docs in Toronto this weekend....

New Zealand filmmaker and documentarian Slavko Martinov didn’t have to wander far from home to find the inspiration for his latest movie, Pecking Order, which makes its world premiere at Hot Docs on the festival’s opening weekend. A native of the community of...

For most people today, stopping to get a shoe shine is kind of an alien thing, and that sad. Once ubiquitous in major metropolitan areas, the giant chairs where someone would plop down for a quick respite while getting a buff on their loafers now look like monoliths...